{"id":1177,"date":"2020-07-19T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:47:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:18","slug":"a-space-in-between-3-hear-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/a-space-in-between-3-hear-here\/","title":{"rendered":"A space in-between #3: ‘Hear, Here’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cooper Gallery, within Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, has launched its latest project.\u00a0Hear, Here<\/em><\/a> runs from 26 June – 28 August. The project includes a series of sound art commissions by artists who work with images, the voice, text, sounds, music and performance, including Anne Bean and Nicholas Parkinson, Anne-Marie Copestake, Tina Krekels, Georgina Starr and Viola Yesiltac.<\/p>\n

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Hear, Here
\n<\/strong>In the cacophony of this ongoing moment, this space in-between, there are sounds, indeed voices who take imagination as an insurrectionary act. In their utterance the \u2018prose of the world\u2019* is turned inside out.<\/p>\n

Wading into rivers, feet clicking on pavements, looking out the window, alone in dark rooms, and ignoring the loudspeakers, each and every sound in here is a clamour, drawing attention to the vivid immediacy of where we are, with each other and with the world in all its concrete particularity.<\/p>\n

Broadening our ears to the possibilities of the realities waiting buried under every word,\u00a0Georgina Starr\u00a0elucidates a \u2018here\u2019 dazzled with ambiguities rooted in magical formulae, dreams, curses and poetry. Harking to an otherness, stubborn and resistant to what we take for granted, Starr\u2019s \u2018here\u2019 calls to a different wakefulness.<\/p>\n

Travelling as an observer and displaced by errant mother tongues, the \u2018here\u2019 of\u00a0Viola Ye\u015filta\u00e7, spontaneous and in the moment, strains the limits of what we hear between the borders. In her \u2018here\u2019, with adroit attention to detail, a vaster world takes shape, ephemeral and fleeting, it gives notice on what was normal, on what was contained.<\/p>\n

Caught between loudspeakers\u00a0Tina Krekels\u00a0clears out a \u2018here\u2019 among the noise of rhetorical voices. Interspersed with sound bites, Krekels\u2019 \u2018here\u2019 dispenses with populist remedies and solutions, instead she opens an audible space where the politics of this moment are heard in their true register, an unpersuasive din.<\/p>\n

Taking wind and river as voice,\u00a0Anne Bean\u00a0and her collaborator\u00a0Nicol Parkinson\u00a0alight onto the shore of a \u2018here\u2019 where imagination rises and teases us with the possibilities of revolutionary acts. In the depths of this disquiet, besieged by what is barely heard, this \u2018here\u2019 of time and tide captures both the urgency of this moment and the sure knowledge that it too, will ebb.<\/p>\n

Paused before a window, \u2018here\u2019 for\u00a0Anne-Marie Copestake\u00a0is a subtle mediation on attentiveness, a moment in which to witness, to care and above all to feel for the innumerable solitudes which, like us, seek refuge and respite in a vision of the world waiting beyond. Subliminal, almost unnoticed, the world from \u2018here\u2019 is caught, held still and recognised in its absolute presence.<\/p>\n

Each of us has these voices, they speak as us . . . and we hear ourselves through them.<\/p>\n

So turn down the media, step up to a window, lie down on a sofa, walk to the water then take to the streets and listen to what we have yet to hear. . . It is \u2018here,\u2019 hear it.<\/p>\n

*The Prose of the World (1973) is a book by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, unfinished at the time of his death in 1961. The book was intended to be a theory of truth<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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You can listen to all these new artworks online on the Cooper Gallery website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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